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MVN-2015-0887-EBB

Published Dec. 2, 2019
Expiration date: 12/31/2019

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Plaquemines Holdings, LLC c/o Cali & LaPlace Engineers, LLC, Attention:  Stephen P. Cali, at Post Office Box 7158, Metairie, Louisiana  70158.

LOCATION OF WORK:  Right descending bank of the Mississippi River, approximately 61.9 miles above the Head of Passes, Belle Chasse, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, as shown on the attached drawings.

Hydrologic Unit Code: 08090100; Lower Mississippi River – New Orleans

Latitude:  29.678889, Longitude: -89.966389

CHARACTER OF WORK:  To install and maintain a 22’ x 70’ loading dock, four barge dolphins, a raised road, and piperack with 12” pipeline, all to serve an existing motor oil refining plant.  A barge-mounted crane will be used for all work beyond the low water reference plane, and a land-based crane will be utilized for all other work.  Project implementation will require fill of 0.01 acre of non-vegetated water bottom for riprap around pilings which penetrate the revetment, temporary impacts to 0.39 acres of wetlands for work areas, and permanent impacts to 0.21 acres of wetlands for road and pipeline right-of-ways.  This permit was issued to CHS, Inc. on 20 June 2016, and compensatory mitigation requirements were fulfilled at that time.  The current request is for a time extension to the permit as well as transfer to Plaquemines Holdings, LLC.  No changes to the work are proposed; no additional mitigation is anticipated at this time.